This new handbook aims to bring clarity to UK copyright legislation, which has been referred to as the longest, most confusing and hardest to navigate in the world
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PatBase gets legal status search updates
Asian patent collections added to PatBase
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Minesoft and RWS Group update PatBase
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
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Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
